v 1: place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to
me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his
lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, give]
2: cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The
cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer
turned over the vase" [syn: overturn, tip over, upset,knock over, bowl over]
3: to rotate or cause to rotate: "The child rolled down the
hill"; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at
his words"; "turn over to your left side" [syn: roll, revolve]
4: turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over
the soil for aeration" [syn: dig, delve, cut into]
5: do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company
turns over ten million dollars a year"
6: cause to move around a center so as to show another side of;
"turn a page of a book" [syn: turn]
7: turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase
overturned" [syn: overturn, tip over]
8: turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip a coin";
"turn over the pancakes" [syn: flip, flip over]
9: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your
mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, deliberate]